How to Help
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Are you passionate about FORCE and about helping others facing hereditary cancer? Do you want to make a difference? Volunteers are the backbone of FORCE. As we grow, we need you more than ever.
Open Opportunities
Open Outreach Coordinator Positions
We have established groups in need of an Outreach Coordinatorto help organize meetings and other activities in the following locations. Download our Outreach information flyer.
- Alabama
- Alaska (Second Coordinator)
- Arkansas
- California: San Diego (Second Coordinator)
- Delaware
- Florida: Gainesville, Jacksonville
- Florida: Naples, Orlando, Sarasota, Tallahassee, Tampa (Second Coordinators)
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois: Peoria, Rockford (Second Coordinators)
- Iowa: Northeast (Second Coordinator)
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland: Baltimore (Second Coordinator)
- Michigan: Detroit, Western (Second Coordinator)
- Minnesota: Minneapolis (Second Coordinator)
- Mississippi
- Missouri St. Louis Metropolitan area : (Second Coordinator)
- Montana
- Nevada Las Vegas (Second Coordinator)
- North Carolina: Winston-Salem, Charlotte
- North Dakota
- South Carolina: Charleston
- South Dakota
- Texas: Austin, Fort Worth
- Texas: Houston (Second Coordinator)
- Utah Salt Lake City : (Second Coordinator)
- Virginia Beach : (Second Coordinator)
- Washington: Seattle (Second Coordinator)
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin: Milwaukee (Second Coordinator)
- Wyoming
If you can help in any of the above cities or are interested in starting a group in your area, please contact: Sandra Cohen.
Social networking
Always on Facebook? Know the best videos on You Tube? Tweeting Daily? We're looking for someone to help FORCE create and execute a social networking plan.
Candidates must be willing to attend an online training on FORCE and our mission. A stipend may be available for this position. Please contact Barbara Pfeiffer for more information.
Helpline Project Director
Help us drive awareness of the FORCE helpline and increase the hours we are able to provide this much needed suport. We need an organized volunteer with a business or marketing background to help us create a plan to drive awareness, increase call volume and number of volunteers, along with maintaining a volunteer schedule. Please contact Barbara Pfeiffer for more nfomation.
Helpline volunteers
If you have 4-6 hours per month and are willing to speak with other women and provide support and information on hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, please consider signing up as a Helpline Volunteer. Please note:
- Helpline training is provided.
- Calls will be forwarded to your home or cell and your number is not disclosed to the caller.
- You will need to committ to a specific two hour shift every other week (e.g., Every other Wednesday - 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.). Slots are available at all times.
- We are also looking for Spanish speakers and men who would be interested in volunteering to do occasional call backs as needed.
A helpline's volunteers role is to listen, find resources to support the calls and tell their own story (if appropriate.) The ideal volunteer is comfortable with their decisions, generally not facing surgery or treatment, and are comfortable in providing all options to callers. Please contact Barbara Pfeiffer for more information.
Special skills needed
We have a need for volunteers with teh following expertise / skills:
- Fluency in Spanish
- Public relations
- Web Design / Web Applications
For more information, please contact Barbara Pfeiffer
Future Volunteer Opportunities
Have special skills or interested in other opportunities not listed here? Able to provide an hour or two in your area to represent FORCE at local events? Enter your email address and click the "Go" button and we'll put you on our list for future projects.
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Volunteer Profile
Our featured volunteer this month is Mary Orloff. Read Mary's story below. Then learn about the MANY ways you can help FORCE make a difference in your community.
November 2, 2008 will be the 30th anniversary of my mom’s death from ovarian cancer. I was 16 at the time and the oldest of five children. In addition to my mom, my grandmother, aunt, sister and cousin have all been affected by either ovarian or breast cancer. With such a strong family history of these cancers, I knew that I would have to be vigilant and take charge of my health care. Genetic testing revealed that I have the BRCA1 mutation. After many years of increased breast surveillance (mammograms, MRIs, ultrasounds, research studies), I decided to have prophylactic mastectomies followed by reconstruction. Information I received at the 2007 FORCE conference reinforced my decision to have |
prophylactic surgery a month later. So many wonderful women were willing to talk and share their stories. I realized that I wasn’t alone in this journey. I thought that when I was finished with my surgeries I would want to forget about all of this, and go on with my life. However, I’ve become passionate about FORCE and the many ways the organization can help women and their families with issues surrounding hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. I love to read, so I volunteer and co-chair the Scholastic Book Fair at my sons’ grade school. I love to be creative, so I volunteer and decorate bricks for the Breast Cancer Brick Auction. I love to be involved with my sons’ education, so I volunteer and I’m on the PTO Board for their school. I love to exercise, so I walk and run in various community events such as Race for the Cure and the Emerald Miles for the Epilepsy Foundation. I love my parish family, so I volunteer at the church festival and other events. And finally, I love to help other women who are facing the same tough health care decisions that I’ve had to make, so I volunteer as the Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky Outreach Coordinator for FORCE! I love… so, I volunteer! |
